Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling

The pros and cons of Compact Fluorescent (CF) light bulbs, with specific regard to recycling. While Compact Fluorescents last a long time and save lots of electricity, the CF bulbs contain mercury and must be disposed of properly.

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• fluorescent
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[noreaga12326]

@47f0 you're probably one of those idiots who think that humans are responsible for global warming. Go do something useful with ur life instead of posting non-sense on utube, old man. your grandchildren are waiting to use the computer.

[stickedU]

Mercury is not bad for humans, I saw this common belief debunked. Its actually good in small amounts through extended time. UV too, small amounts over extended time.

[47f0]

@stevenabb - I don't care if you live in Buckingham palace - you can move away from it far more easily than you can move away from a toxic environment - got tickets for the bus to Mars? But in the end, the only refutation you have is a juvenile, "oh, dude, I totally banged your wife." Brilliant. With a level of genius like that, no wonder you're a clueless fuck who doesn't know what his kids are tearing up, and prefers to keep his mercury hidden in his air, water and breakfast cereal.

[stevenabb]

@47f0 - What is that about "moving into another trailer"? What trailer? We live in a 3,200 SQ house... Please don't assume everyone is as poor as you. If your hunky~dorry with putty these Mercury bulbs in your kids bedrooms, go in peace. As for your comment about "pantie wetting" actually, your wife and I are not dry humping anymore, she is going bare with me so I am not making a mess of her undies... Thanks dorkie for slipping in a wierd comment like that.

[47f0]

@stevenabb - if you have no clue that your kids are playing in broken glass, well, you have no clue. Can't help you there, mate. I find all this pantie wetting about the 4mg of Hg in CFLs funny as hell, as for decades we've had 45-60 mg of Hg in bog-standard 48" fluorescents, which are commonly used in residential kitchen and garage fixtures, and are the standard for lighting at work and schools. Think your kids may not tell you? I promise, your school janitor won't fess up to breaking a bulb.

[47f0]

@stevenabb - assume, worst case, you break a case of CFLs in your kid's bedroom. You have the option of moving into another trailer. Try moving your kids out of the environment. You're saying, "Mercury is fine as long as I don't know about it." The info on environmental Hg is straight from the DOE, and includes the current mix of power plants, which aren't as clean as you think. And Hg isn't the only pollution they produce, BTW. As to the allegedly crap Chinese CFLs, I have yet to replace any.

[stevenabb]

@47f0 - I challenge your assumptions: Overall, I would rather have mercury released into the air from a power plants than my children's bedrooms. Besides, a lot of coal powered plants have been replaced with green alternatives or natural gas so the ( power plant = mercury ) argument is not so valid. With the low quality of CFB's being created in China, how many CFB's are being thrown away how often vs. power plant mercury?

[stevenabb]

BullCRAP!!! Compact Fluorescent Bulbs don't last 8x a regular light bulb... They are being so cheaply made in China now, they last about 2x times of a regular bulb.God help you if it breaks in a kids bedroom... Kids will be kids and may not tell you for a week they broke a lightbulb while playing in Mercury for a week. So now we have our toxic bulbs... you do realize 95% of these will end up in landfills at 4 ~ 5 mg per bulb and millions and millions of bulbs it's a toxic train wreck...BAD

[999Atwood]

Thanks for the info Jerry Garcia!

[rainbowsalads]

why is it that the energy saving bulb manufactures do not sell these bulbs in a special box that that the bulb should also be returned via a free-post back to the manufacturer? if they continue to sell these , it should be easy and free to recycle.